We welcome back Mary Dixie Carter to our Mother’s Day Author Blog series. This time, she turns her attention to roses and why her mother was so fond of them. As a tribute to her mother, the titular character in Mary Dixie’s upcoming novel, MARGUERITE BY THE LAKE (which releases on May 20th), has a deep love of roses. The book is about the death of a glamorous garden designer, a widower trying to keep his secrets buried, and the beautiful young gardener who finds herself entangled in their lives.

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Mary Dixie Carter is the author of THE PHOTOGRAPHER, which released in paperback this summer. This psychological thriller is a slyly observed, suspenseful story of envy and obsession, told in the mesmerizing, irresistible voice of a character who will make you doubt that seeing is ever believing. In her holiday blog post, Mary Dixie reflects on the last Christmas she spent with her mother and the book she wishes her mother had inscribed.

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Mary Dixie Carter’s debut psychological thriller, THE PHOTOGRAPHER, releases on May 25th and will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick. A graduate of Harvard College with an honors degree in English Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, she has had her work featured in a number of prestigious publications, including TIME, The Economist and The New York Observer. Reading and writing are integral components of Mary Dixie’s life. Audiobooks, specifically, have brought her family closer together and transformed long car rides. She is deeply grateful to the iPad thief who made this possible, as you will learn in her Mother’s Day blog post.

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